Martin Jarvis,
OAMThe Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"....
(born 17 September 1951,
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,
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) is an
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n
violinThe violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist and
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player. He was the third of five children, and the only boy, born to Dorothy and Bernard Jarvis. Bernard Jarvis was a police officer and eventually become a superintendent. Dorothy Jarvis had been an actress.
Jarvis founded the
Darwin Symphony OrchestraThe Darwin Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, founded by Martin Jarvis.The DSO gave its first concert in 1989. The orchestra receives funding from the Northern Territory Government and support from private corporations and donors including Charles...
, which gave its first concert in 1989. He continues as its artistic director.
Jarvis is also an associate professor and lecturer of music at
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.
Martin Jarvis,
OAMThe Order of Australia is an order of chivalry established by Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia on 14 February 1975 "for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and other persons for achievement or for meritorious service"....
(born 17 September 1951,
Ebbw ValeEbbw Vale is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River, south Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough...
,
WalesWales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It is also an elective region of the European Union...
) is an
AustraliaAustralia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
n
violinThe violin is a bowed string instrument with four strings usually tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest and highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which also includes the viola and cello....
ist and
violaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.The casual observer may mistake the viola for the violin because of their similarity in size, closeness in pitch range , and nearly identical playing position...
player. He was the third of five children, and the only boy, born to Dorothy and Bernard Jarvis. Bernard Jarvis was a police officer and eventually become a superintendent. Dorothy Jarvis had been an actress.
Jarvis founded the
Darwin Symphony OrchestraThe Darwin Symphony Orchestra is an orchestra based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, founded by Martin Jarvis.The DSO gave its first concert in 1989. The orchestra receives funding from the Northern Territory Government and support from private corporations and donors including Charles...
, which gave its first concert in 1989. He continues as its artistic director.
Jarvis is also an associate professor and lecturer of music at
Charles Darwin UniversityCharles Darwin University is an Australian public university with about 20,000 students in 2007.The University offers a wide range of Higher Education degrees and Vocational Education and Training courses with flexible study options, including part-time, external and online.CDU has campuses in the...
. He has controversially postulated, using handwriting analysis heuristics, that
Anna Magdalena BachAnna Magdalena Bach was the second wife of Johann Sebastian Bach.-Biography:...
composed the
Six Suites for Unaccompanied CelloThe Six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello by Johann Sebastian Bach are acclaimed as some of the greatest works ever written for solo cello. They were most likely composed during the period 1717–1723, when Bach served as a Kapellmeister in Cöthen....
of her husband
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. Other academics such as Stephen Rose have responded that whilst Anna Magdalena may have contributed to the labours on his manuscripts:
".....there is not enough evidence to show that she single-handedly composed the Cello Suites."
Jarvis was awarded a PhD from Charles Darwin University based on his research. He presented his findings at an October 2008 meeting of the International Symposium on the Forensic Sciences in
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. Given the controversy surrounding his hypothesis, Jarvis himself has acknowledged about his conclusions, but also the general portrayal of the role of Anna Magdalena Bach in history:
"My conclusions may not be wholly accurate, but the way in which tradition has put Anna Magdalena into this pathetic role ... is rubbish."
Jarvis was a recipient of the Medal of the
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(OAM) in the 2007
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Honours.
Jarvis has been married three times. He and his third wife Erna have two children. He also has three children from his previous marriages.
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